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Re:Basics of Futexes by bogomipz on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:10PM (#17526724)
At the end of the piece the author states:

>"The Go runtime does not use libc, in most cases ..."

Can someone say in which cases does the Go runtime elect to use libc?

Re:Basics of Futexes by ecnahc515 on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:15PM (#17526760)
If and when/depends on some env vars and also compile time options. Basically it mostly uses libc for some network operations like hostname resolution, and a few other things like user/group resolution. However it defaults to the Pure go implementations by default for most things if possible.